Mapping Project Results    
     
     

During the course of the Project over 40 field investigations have been undertaken.These have included geophysical surveys, test pitting, boreholing and the cleaning of sections in old quarry workings.

 

    

 

 
One of the key aims of the Raised Beach Mapping Project is to provide detailed maps showing the distribution of the Slindon Formation. Click here for the full version of the above map   
U100 borehole sample from West Stoke, 10km to the West of Boxgrove. Sample clearly shows a typical Boxgrove stratigraphic sequence preserving the Slindon Silts, the palaeolandsurface and overlying cold stage deposits.  
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The fieldwork has shown that deposits of the Slindon Formation can be traced for 24km between Tortington, near Arundel in the east across to Westbourne Common, near Havant in the west. At either end of their distribution these deposits outcrop within relatively low lying areas. However, within a core area between Slindon and Racton Park Farm, the deposits of the Slindon and Eartham Formations are remarkably well preserved.

 

In some locations dry valley formation has occurred without disturbing the underlying Slindon Formation. This means that we are now able to identify locations where excavations can directly sample new parts of the palaeolandscape. One of these areas is at Slindon Bottom, which also showed an exciting new suite of atypical deposits preserving organic remains as part of the Slindon Formation.